RE: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?(Gone where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog)

Most of what I do, for sure, as far as writing programs.  If only I'd
mastered the business side. <g>  I think it's real safe to say that the
number of truly original programming ideas I've had is a small one digit
number, and remember, zero is a number.

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From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 12:08 PM
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Subject: RE: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?(Gone
where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog)


That'd be like most programming, eh? 
_______________________
Booth Martin
booth@martinvt.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
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05/28/2000 01:18 PM
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Southern cross the Yellow Dog)

This is off topic, but I can't help myself.  You can stop reading now if 
you
want. 

Handy was a good businessman.  That was also what made him a successful 
song
writer.  I wouldn't go so far to say he was heavily into plagarism, but a
lot of his songs involved reworking others' original material into a form
that was more palatable to a general audience.  To be fair, a lot of blues
lyrics were written the same way except for the part about the general
audience. 

-----Original Message-----
From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:23 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?


W.C.Handy got screwed over for his first hit song.  He learned his lesson. 

 That publisher didn't get anymore of his songs.  Good programmers learn 
who pays them and who hurts them, and the companies that are truly unfair 
end up with mediocre help.

_______________________
Booth Martin
booth@martinvt.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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